Stanford University 1999-2003
PH.D., ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
Advisor: Prof. Andrea Goldsmith
Associate Advisor: Prof. Thomas Cover
California Institute of Technology 1998-1999
MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Indian Institute of Technology 1994-1998
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Teach courses to support theoretical research in communications, networking and signal processing at UT - Information theory, Coding theory and Probability, statistics & random processes.
Conduct research in a broad set of topics relating to information exchange, analysis, extraction and hiding.
Research topics studied:
Achievable res and outer bounds on capacity for multi-user systems.
Duality of multiple antenna uplink and downlink systems.
Worst case capacity of MIMO systemsgion
Algorithms for computing capacity of broadcast channels.
Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ July - August 2002
Intern, Mathematics of Communications Group
National Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara, CA July - September 2000
Intern, Wireless Research Division
Crown Com Best Paper Award in 2008
Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2007
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Student Best Paper Award 2007
IEEE Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Society Best Paper Award 2005 (one paper picked out of all journals in communications and/or information theory published in 2004)
National Science Foundation Early CAREER award in 2005.
Finalist at The Stanford-Berkeley Innovator’s Challenge in 2003.
Ranked 2/144 in Stanford University’s doctoral qualifying examinations 2000.
Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2000.
Outstanding thesis Gold medal, Indian Institute of Technology, 1998.
* Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, January 2005-Present
* Program Committee of CISE REU Site PI Meeting, September 2006-Present
* TPC member of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Information Theory Workshop (ITW), International Conference on Communications (ICC), Global Telecommunications Conference and Wireless Communications Conference.
